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Passion: whatever makes you happy

May 11, 2020

1104 words: estimated reading time 5 mins 30s. As exercise professionals we are usually pretty enthusiastic about convincing others to share our love of physical activity, exercise and sports – but how much love are we really expecting? I hadn’t really thought too much about this until I recently reviewed an article that got me […]

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Exercise form – informed?

January 13, 2020

Locking it up 963 words – estimated reading time: 4mins, 50s. One of the things (and there’s a lot) that really perplexes me with exercise is the range of rules and guidelines that surround exercise and exercise technique. What I’m talking about here are the things that exercise professionals seem to repeat and reinforce automatically […]

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Mental toughness?

December 23, 2019

 760 words estimated reading time 3 minutes, 48 sec. Following on from my last blog – something else that caught my attention researching and writing our book was the concept of training effort and intensity. I was reading back through some interviews that I’d conducted with college (university) strength and conditioning coaches in the US […]

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Plenty of blame to go around

December 16, 2019

930 words; reading time around 4 minutes, 30 seconds. I’m back, albeit sheepishly – heck, my last blog was over 4 months ago! To those who make the effort to visit this site and read my blogs – thank you so much. I apologise for the lull. I haven’t quit, just distracted and otherwise engaged. […]

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Stimulating the brain. Literally!

August 1, 2019

937 words; estimated reading time 4 mins, 41 secs. Stimulate your mind I find the whole gimmick culture that plagues sport, exercise, and health absolutely fascinating. The thought processes and craftiness of the people who think up, and market these things is as intriguing as the vulnerability and gullibility of the people putting their money […]

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The power of us

July 16, 2019

1234 words; estimated reading time: 6 minutes, 10 seconds. The social merits of physical activity are widely recognised. In fact, exercising in the company of others seems to be a really powerful motivator for exercise engagement across our lifespans. Sure, some people prefer to work out in solitude, lost in their thoughts, the calming scenery […]

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Can we trust this?

June 28, 2019

Finding and evaluating information. 3090 words (that’s a lot!) : estimated reading time: 15 mins, 27 secs.  A guide There are arguably many ways that personal research could be done; I’ve tried to approach this from an exercise professional’s perspective. Hopefully, some or all of this information will be helpful in some way. You may want […]

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Who do we trust?

June 21, 2019

1385 words; estimated reading time: 6 minutes, 55 seconds. Reflecting on my recent blog on fitness trend and fads, I realised that it was, in reality, a superficial treatment of an important topic. The paper that I reviewed was effectively just a popularity survey and was short on critical thinking – something the 10th man seeks […]

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Calorie catastrophe!!

June 3, 2019

1108 words: estimated reading time 5 mins 30s Who’s Bad?One of my closest colleagues would periodically confess to having been bad. She wasn’t reporting on her poor behaviour; she was simply owning up to having eaten a Snickers bar (or something similar). Each time I’d argue that she was actually neither good nor bad and […]

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Workload monitoring??

May 27, 2019

The flawed touch of geniuses 1900 words; reading time ~ 9 mins, 30 secs. …or should that be the touch of flawed geniuses?An emerging obsession in strength and conditioning has been the challenge of regulating an athletes’ exercise stress and recovery balance. The apparent solution has been to harness science and technology and measure/monitor either […]

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I’ve been studying, practising, teaching, training, researching and writing about exercise, fitness, and sport for 45 years and counting. Every day I learn something new or look at old things differently. These posts are what comes out!

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